A Swiss photographer is suing Apple claiming that Jobs' Mob nicked one of her photos without her permission in its marketing campaign for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

Apple, which sues everyone who it thinks nicked its ideas, has the rights to the rounded rectangle thanks to a US court and the company apparently told the woman it did not want her snap. Then it copied, published and exploited Plaintiff's 'Eye Closeup' photograph, including it in its MacBook Pro advertising campaign, keynote address, and related advertising materials without permission or compensation."

The photograph was snapped by fashion photographer Sabine Liewald and was taken by Apple from Liewald's New York agent, Factory Downtown. The agreement was that it would be used for layout only and Apple informed Factory Downtown that it did not intend to use the 'Eye Closeup' photograph in the advertising campaign for Apple's MacBook Pro computers." Then it did and hoped no one noticed.

Liewald has requested a jury trial but we guess that even Apple will have to admit that it did not invent this particular photograph.

Apple told a developer that his software was insecure and cannot be put in its App store. Then Jobs' Mob copied it and pretended it sprang from the genius of Apple. In this case, it nicked the app from a young developer who was unlikely to be able to afford a lawyer.

Greg Hughes, who is in his third year at the University of Birmingham, penned an application called "Wi-Fi Sync" which can sync iTunes libraries with iPhones over a wireless wireless network rather than via a USB connector. He sent it into Apple's App Store in May 2010 but was told that it was rejected for "security concerns" and for doing things that Steve Jobs' says should not be done.

Hughes flogged the app on the Cydia store, a rival to the App Store which sells software for "jailbroken" iPhones. On sale for £6.07, has become one of Cydia's top products, selling more than 50,000 copies since its release.

But a year after saying no to the app, Apple released software with the same functions, a near-identical logo and the same name. Hughes told the Telegraph that he was completely shocked when Steve Jobs proudly showed off the inbuilt feature also called Wi-Fi Sync, which he wrote.

Before his app was rejected, Hughes had a call from an App Store representative called Steve Rea, who said the iPhone engineering team had looked at it and were quite impressed. They told him to send in his CV after he graduated.

We should point out that Apple tends to be quite aggressive when it thinks that people have been stealing its designs. It has hamstrung its long running partnership with Samsung because the outfit used Android technology which Jobs' Mob believes it invented.

Hughes is apparently doing his exams at the moment, but said he is talking to his lawyers.

A top French author has admitted cutting and pasting chunks of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia into his books.

But, according to the Independent, Michel Houellebecq insists half inching things like the description of mating flies was not plagiarism. Houellebecq said that it could be an experimental form of literature. "Even a form of "beauty".

The writer was apparently furious when the French press waded into him for lifting passages of his latest book from Wikipedia.fr. They argued that Houellebecq, should know better as he is the most successful French novelist outside France.

Houellebecq does not deny that that he did nick technical descriptions from the anonymous compilers of Wikipedia. A couple of passages in his acclaimed new novel La Carte et le Territoire were lifted verbatim. They include a description of how flies have sex.

He said that his whole style was based on borrowing banal and technical descriptions from everyday life and weaving them into something artistic. Houellebecq said that if people really think that this is plagiarism, they haven't got the first notion of what literature is.

Using real documents and fiction, has been used by many authors. He was influenced by Georges Perec and Jorge Luis Borges. Houellebecq told a radio interviewer that taking passages word for word was not stealing so long as the motives were to recycle them for artistic purposes. "I hope that this contributes to the beauty of my books, using this kind of material," he said.

Quite how an article which was probably edited by a fake penis expert, or someone who faked their doctorate, could be considered beauty is anyone's guess. Still the ability of Wackipedia to make people who it does not think are important disappear would make a good detective novel.

Houellebecq has been accused of racism, sexism and obscenity. This last book La Carte et le Territoire was acclaimed as a "work of genius" by the French newspaper Libération.